[Charania] Following the fall out with the Clippers’ coaching staff and being sent home, it is “not certain” that Chris Paul will play in the NBA again.
who is picking him up rn? I am sure he would have liked to retire gracefully though
I would love for him to return to new Orleans to mentor Fears, and reunite with DJ
Reunite with DJ?
deandre jordan
God, I forgot he was on the team. So random. Has he even played at all since the day they signed him and immediately started him?
Deandre Jordan
Not gonna lie, that would be cool
New Orleans is such a perfect landing spot.
Probably nobody. He can’t move, can’t really defend, and was shooting one of the worst TS% in the league with us.
He’s just not an NBA level player anymore. You can’t shoot 41% TS when you are the slowest and smallest player on the court. I’m not sure there was a single game this season that CP3 wasn’t a net negative for us in
When you hit the wall you hit it HARD. Dude was at least a rotation player in San Antonio last season.
Dude he’s on your team now
I’d be shocked if he even boarded a flight a to Toronto unless he comes as a visitor after getting his buyout
He got/ getting cut. They didn’t even bother to have him report to the team.
Whichever team that empties their roster for Giannis might want some vet minimum pickups
us possibly?
Fuck it, make us the oldest team in the league, idc anymore.
Let him run it back with the Spurs or Suns
Yeah, he’s a bench guy that probably doesn’t really want to be a bench guy. And halfway through the season you probably miss out on the leadership intangibles. At this point in the season you either have a winning culture or you don’t. Adding CP to your bench is doing more harm than good.
We’d take the version of him from a couple years ago. He was pretty dreadful this year.
I mean yeah, he’s pretty old. Rommel got told he couldn’t drive tanks anymore, CP3 probably knows its over. No shame in it, happens to us all.
What a random ass WW2 reference
CP3, the Desert Fox.
Hey if it helps to illustrate the point thats all that really matters
More like Rommel got told he has to shoot himself or watch his family get killed for conspiring to kill Hitler
CP3 has had it better than a forced suicide yes.
stupid technical details
I think the fact that he had a lot of knowledge about the July 20th conspiracy is pretty shaky though right?
Hitler kinda went more insane after the July 20th plot. 54% of all German casualties occurred in the last 10 months of the war. He basically resolved to take down as much of Germany and the allies down with him as he could.
Rommel was between a rock and a very hard place. Never had a chance unfortunately.
Are you like my dad and fall asleep to WWII documentaries every night for years?
As a historian I try to make the docs! But also yeah lol.
there’s multiple teams that can use a point guard, right now.
that seems extremely unlikely.
Bulls could use another
Bulls might somehow field an entire roster of guards.
Starting five of CP3, Tre Jones, Mike Conley, Jaden Ivey and Yuki Kawamura at the 5. Ivey the giant of the group at 6’3”.
Giddey at center surely
Getting Chris Paul to mentor 8 young guards before he retires and they all get traded or leave in free agency sounds like a fun story that the Bulls GM would latch onto, entirely forgetting he runs a basketball franchise and not a basketball camp
The way they’ve been active this year. Is there really a difference?
Good luck scoring on them when they can “guard” you for all 48 minutes.
league fucked
We could use CP3 lol
We have Shead and IQ. IQ is better as a SG lol
If he aint playing for us and getting an opportunity to go to the playoffs, he aint willing to play for anybody.
Toronto already said he isn’t expected to report as they are going to move him.
Yeah we’re waiving him because we gotta get under the tax lol
That’s why we had to attach a second to get out of Ochai’s deal
Shead is considerably better then CP3 now…
Yes, and there’s still 15-18 open minutes of PG play that we need to fill if we’re serious about competing. Shead is great, and his minutes should increase but he can’t handle all of them.
CP3 only playing if they want a championship.
Also the wording is “Raptors don’t require Chris Paul to report” which indicates that it’s not really our choice in the matter but to act like he wouldn’t have playing time here is laughable lol
He probably only wants to report to a contender or retire.
Should go in for Lonzo Ball 🤷🏻♂️
If you need a point guard and your answer is Chris Paul, you are still in need for a point guard.
Did you watch Chris Paul play last year, or this year? The dude is beyond cooked - which is ok. We all have a moment when our time is up.
It’s obvious you didn’t watch him because last year he played all 82 with the Spurs, and was very good for the contract he was on.
I think people are confusing still serviceable with a starter.
He absolutely can lead a second unit
It’s a league of starters. What are we even talking about. Tons of serviceable bench players especially if they don’t want to make any money.
did you watch him this season? Year to year drop off is real when youre 40.
Did you watch Chris Paul lol?
He chose the Clippers this offseason because he wanted to be close to his family in LA. Seems unlikely that would change now
We need a point guard right now and told him to stay home
Definitely some teams that would keep him as a 15th man even if he didn’t play.
Chris Paul has been available for months, this only happened because the Raptors needed to offload agbaji to get under the apron.
And multiple teams have guys that could use some State Farm commercial money.
No team needs the worst pg in the league
He can’t be any worse than Tyus Jones off the bench for us. Maybe someone like Chris could light a fire under their asses since they’ve been playing some uninspiring basketball lately.
It’s pretty hard to light a fire under anyone’s ass when you’re the worst player on the team lol
That was like the whole problem with CP3 in LA by the sounds of it. And to answer your question, yes he can be worse than Tyus.
Tbh I think anyone who says he’ll be signed didn’t watch him play this year, he has less than nothing left in the tank. It was actually kinda sad to watch as a fan
The Clippers are such a bum organization for ruining the retirement tour of their own GOAT. Chris Paul is the only reason the Clippers are at all relevant
Clippers have done a masterclass on treating your franchise legends like shit. Steve Balmer and Frank Lawrence deserve to never win anything.
Blake Griffin running away from Steve Ballmer is one of those things living rent free in my brain lmao
We need to re-examine Balmer’s relationship with Bill Gates and how close they were.
Mate, every billionaire is a piece of shit, you don’t need Epstein connections for that.
you have such high aspirations for them!
I hope they’re aware of this being part of a larger behavioral pattern, don’t want to miss the forest for the trees
Pretty sure their checks cleared. No one in actual NBA circles cares much. It’s business and they all know CP is a douche.
But while we are on the topic, they seem to have done Harden a huge solid.
If they had to do something as extreme as dropping him from the team, he obviously wasn’t good for them. We don’t know what happened behind the scenes but that doesn’t happen for no reason.
the whole team flipped the script and started winning a lot after he was removed
Clippers are in NO position to accommodate a retirement tour. Come on.
Maybe he should’ve checked his pride at the door, considering he can’t contribute on the court anymore?
Probably not fun having a geriatric pg constantly chewing you out when he can’t do anything on the court
The clippers going on a run after telling him to stay him says a lot though
That’s a wild claim. The Clippers have been the most successful team league-wide since Christmas with a record of 15-5.
How does that change that the Clippers are a terrible organization. Harden literally just got traded and he’s a big part of that team success
Smoothie king 😂😂
Hes not their goat lmao, second round at best
His legacy is giving up 2-0 leads and 3-1 leads
But yeah poor guy
He is their GOAT, what the fuck has Kawhi done except not plant trees and sit on the bench? Chris Paul made the Clippers relevant with Lob City, and if you don’t know that then you probably don’t know much
Blake Griffin
It will always be Blake.
Kawhi/PG made it farther in the playoffs than Paul ever did. He’s not. Blake gets the nod over Paul from lob city anyway
What has Kawhi done? Lmao average 30 ppg in 2021 bringing them to their first WCF in just his second year with them.
You’re a crack smoker if you think Chris Paul can hold his bags.
Kawhi got injured in game 4 of the second round when the series was tied 2-2. If you’re citing the WCF berth then call PG13 their franchise GOAT lmao
He is an always injured fraudster who just wants to get paid.
And Zion is a fat loser who will never stay healthy
See? We can both talk out our ass lmao
And you really think I like Zion? yeah, he is a fat loser who will never stay healthy and that’s why I want him gone from the team
Go get Chris Paul back then, lmao, retire his jersey next to the championship banner he materialized. Oh wait 😆
Did Chris Paul sleep with your girlfriend or something?
Some kids on this site are beyond cooked.
I’m keeping it real
If he is any team’s franchise goat, it would be Nola.
Cry me a river. Better than being an organization that has never pulled a notable free agent and had every good player quit on them and demand a trade. Baron Davis, Chris Paul, Anthony Davis.
Great job with Zion btw. Maybe it was a bad idea to be so totally deferent to his wants and half ass his weight management? But good luck in the future, especially if a half decent free agent ever picks the Pels over a “bum organization”.
yeah no shit the Pelicans are a bum organization lmao, not a single Pelicans fan thinks the organization is in any way good. Clippers fans just need to open their eyes and realize that their organization is awful but instead you want to glaze a billionaire
I’m a CP3 Stan, but nobody can deny the Clippers huge turnaround post-removing CP3. Maybe correlation/causation, but there’s a good argument for it.
Clippers had every right to trade Blake Griffin. We aren’t the first team to re-sign a player and trade them away shortly after, won’t be the last either
You’re glazing Chris Paul lol
I’d rather glaze Chris Paul than Steve Ballmer or any of these soulless NBA owners
You’re excusing your glazing Chris Paul by falsely accusing other people of glazing Steve Ballmer. Ballmer wasn’t even a part of this.
Chris Paul got sent home because he kept undercutting his coaches. They asked him to stop. He promised to stop. Even apologized to the team. But he didn’t stop.
A person who does that at any workplace would get fired. Your acting like he got done dirty is just your glazing a millionaire who behaved badly.
The entire organization is probably complicit in behaving badly by undercutting the entire NBA salary system with Kawhi’s fake advertising deal.
Now you’re just moving to a different set of goalposts to excuse that you are glazing an entitled millionaire who refused to do what he promised to do.
I don’t care what Chris Paul refused to do, I just think the Clippers are a terrible organization
Clipper are a terrible organization.
You don’t have to try to make that point by mischaracterizing what happened with Chris Paul. What happened to Chris Paul was a result of Chris Paul refusing to do what he promised.
The way you open with “you’re excusing your glazing for Chris Paul” makes it sound like “glazing” is the most heinous crime one can commit
Why are you saying I open with glazing when I was just repeating the person that I replied to?
Clippers did my guy dirty.
Clippers might still be a dumpster fire organization but it’s pretty telling that 2 months after the Clips sent CP3 home. There’s still no team that wants him to play, his style of leadership, or locker room voice. Teams weren’t lining up for his services like he or his Reddit glitzy glazers think.
Told kawhi to actually Play Basketball and Harden to chill out on chucking shots if he’s 4-19 halfway through the 3rd quarter and got sent to Dagestan
Bro I was pretty upset when they released him, but let’s be honest. If everyone else doesn’t want to deal with him maybe he’s the asshole in this situation.
Clippers fans are fine with it too. And wonder why no one likes the team lol.
Bro please just mentor Quickley and Shead for half a year
And Martin and Hepburn. Give CP3 his coaching start w/ the 905
Shams Charania is slowly morphing into Lego Shams Charania.
Why is he getting smoother?? I don’t understand.
Got the kay Adams surgeon hookup
I hope we play him out of spite
Let him go out on his own terms
Sounds like a great idea!
Come home, Unc.
has Charania had a bunch of work done or is it just the makeup?
CP3 retires a Raptor, who saw that coming
The hell is this title? That’s some serious editorializing.
Can he realistically go back to one of the teams he mentored like Thunder or Spurs? Do they have space for him? Maybe Houston too? Sad to see this might be how CP3 goes out man
He could’ve played nice and been a benevolent uncle style mentor to their young guys but no he had to be an asshole.
He sounds like he’s really high maintenance for a guy who is washed up
Chris Paul may not return for Avengers: Doomsday.
The wiz could use a tank commander and a PG to get the young players into sets since Trae isn’t really going to play. Plus the Winger/Dawkins OKC connection. Would not be shocked to see them give up some scraps for the good PR and some mentoring.
I want to buy a Chris Paul raptors jersey so bad lmao.
Aww, I wish he could stay to mentor IQ and Shead at least
Teams will have to ask the same question the Clippers did. Is it worth having a player who will talk so loud and challenge everyone and is not a rotation player? They might as well sign him as a coach.
I do not see many teams in need of him at this stage. Certainly not any playoff team. Sadly, I think he is done.
Dude has been a certified B.I.T.C.H. for years.
Makes sense.
Time to get Duolingo, it’s never too late to learn Chinese
Contending teams could use a PG tho
Can you imagine CP’s agent right now? “Hey man you’ve been traded to Toro-” “Yeah dude yeah aight hey who you got in the Superbowl? Seahawks lookin gooooooood”
Greatest farewell tour of all time.
Come to New Orleans
What a farewell tour
God damn what happened to Malika?
I thought the clippers waived him? How can they trade him?
they just told him to go home, they didn’t waive him, he was still under contract
Oh ok, damn that’s even worse lol poor CP3. Fuckin clippers are a joke
they’ve been the best team in the league last 5 weeks without Paul. he is abysmal on the court and an absolute pain in the ass off it.
A joke I say!!
I want him on the rockets as a mentor for reed
I’d take washed Chris Paul over Washed Mike Conley
Honestly with the way the Warriors have botched this trade deadline so far with no action, and seeing as they are about to punt the season if they make no moves, might as well just have Chris Paul be on the bench and send him out in these blowout losses.
I don’t understand why people think teams that had CP3 for a year and then moved on love him? If they loved him, they would have extended him.
I really want him to stay. I know we will treat him a hell of a lot better than the Clippers have. You can come chill out with GT on the bench and just enjoy the vibes.
Guess what, if that happens he will treat you all the same he does everyone and everywhere else. Many NBA players, especially someone like Paul, are incredibly difficult to deal with on personal levels.